[18] He and Widor collaborated on a new edition of Bach's organ works, with detailed analysis of each work in three languages (English, French, German). chief force of the famous hospital at Lambarene, in Gabon, the former French Equatorial Africa. [20] Ernst Cassirer, a contemporaneous German philosopher, called it "one of the best interpretations" of Bach. Albert Schweitzer's Death - Cause and Date Born (Birthday) Jan 14, 1875 Death Date September 4, 1965 Age of Death 90 years Cause of Death Natural Causes Profession Doctor The doctor Albert Schweitzer died at the age of 90. Schweitzer was born 14 January 1875 in Kaysersberg in Alsace, in what had less than four years previously become the Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine in the German Empire after being French for more than two centuries; he later became a citizen of France after World War I, when Alsace became French territory again. ", Called upon to be specific about Reverence for Life, he explained that the concept "does not allow the scholar to live for science alone, even if he is very useful to the community in so doing.". the neighboring village of Gunsbach amid the foothills of the Vosges. At the Mulhouse gymnasium he received his "Abitur" (the certificate at the end of secondary education) in 1893. Schweitzer's arrival at this decision was calculated, a step in a quest for a faith to live by. ~ Albert Schweitzer. Housed originally in the grounds of a mission, he chose to leave this comparative sanctuary for the unknown and forbidding regions of the jungle nearby. Albert Schweitzer - Christian Research Institute His philosophy was expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Hpital Albert Schweitzer in Lambarn, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). But how are we of the post-colonial age to understand a man who was born in 1875 and saw the world very differently from the way we do?